WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:02.870 Henry: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:02.970 --> 00:00:04.490 Day two hundred and ninety six. 00:00:04.837 --> 00:00:06.487 You are beautiful, my darling. 00:00:06.817 --> 00:00:08.407 Beautiful beyond words. 00:00:09.187 --> 00:00:12.007 Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. 00:00:12.637 --> 00:00:18.397 Your hair falls in waves like a flock of goats, winding down the slopes of Gilead. 00:00:19.307 --> 00:00:21.187 Your teeth are as white as sheep. 00:00:21.667 --> 00:00:24.187 Recently sworn and freshly washed. 00:00:24.907 --> 00:00:26.617 Your smile is flawless. 00:00:27.097 --> 00:00:29.527 Each tooth matched with its twin. 00:00:30.457 --> 00:00:32.407 Your lips are like scarlet ribbon. 00:00:32.737 --> 00:00:34.087 Your mouth is inviting. 00:00:34.747 --> 00:00:38.617 Your cheeks are like rosy pomegranates behind your veil. 00:00:39.367 --> 00:00:43.597 Your neck is as beautiful as the tower of David jeweled with the 00:00:43.597 --> 00:00:45.667 shields of a thousand heroes. 00:00:46.237 --> 00:00:52.387 Your breasts are like two fawns twin fawns of a gazelle grazing among the lilies. 00:00:53.572 --> 00:00:59.392 Before the dawn breezes blow and the night shadows flee, I will hurry to the mountain 00:00:59.392 --> 00:01:02.092 of Merr and to the hill of frankincense. 00:01:02.872 --> 00:01:04.042 You are all together. 00:01:04.042 --> 00:01:05.392 Beautiful my darling. 00:01:05.782 --> 00:01:07.312 Beautiful in every way. 00:01:08.362 --> 00:01:10.582 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride. 00:01:11.242 --> 00:01:12.892 Come with me from Lebanon. 00:01:13.552 --> 00:01:18.652 Come down from Mount Amina, from the peaks of Sna and Herman, where 00:01:18.652 --> 00:01:22.582 the lions have their dens and leopards live among the hills. 00:01:23.572 --> 00:01:26.932 You have captured my heart, my treasure, my bride. 00:01:27.652 --> 00:01:31.072 You hold it hostage with one glance of your eyes, with a 00:01:31.077 --> 00:01:32.902 single jewel of your necklace. 00:01:33.592 --> 00:01:36.682 Your love delights me, my treasure, my bride. 00:01:37.312 --> 00:01:38.962 Your love is better than wine. 00:01:39.232 --> 00:01:42.022 Your perfume more fragrant than spices. 00:01:42.532 --> 00:01:44.512 Your lips are as sweet as nectar. 00:01:44.602 --> 00:01:48.262 My bride, honey, and milk are under your tongue. 00:01:49.012 --> 00:01:52.072 Your clothes are scented like the cedars of Lebanon. 00:01:52.852 --> 00:01:58.312 You are my private garden, my treasure, my bride, a secluded 00:01:58.312 --> 00:02:00.442 spring, a hidden fountain. 00:02:01.402 --> 00:02:05.902 Your thighs shelter, a paradise of pomegranates with rare spices. 00:02:06.592 --> 00:02:13.102 Henna with nad nar and saffron, fragrant calamus, and cinnamon with 00:02:13.102 --> 00:02:19.192 all the trees of frankincense, mer and aloes, and every other lovely spice. 00:02:20.107 --> 00:02:22.267 You are a garden fountain. 00:02:22.867 --> 00:02:30.847 A well of fresh water streaming down from Lebanon's mountains awake north wind. 00:02:31.387 --> 00:02:37.597 Rise up south wind blow on my garden and spread its fragrance all around. 00:02:38.347 --> 00:02:41.437 Comment to your garden, my love, taste. 00:02:41.437 --> 00:02:42.907 Its finest fruits 00:02:44.917 --> 00:02:48.907 I have entered my garden, my treasure, my bride. 00:02:49.852 --> 00:02:53.962 I gather merr with my spices and eat honeycomb with my honey. 00:02:54.502 --> 00:02:56.572 I drink wine with my milk. 00:02:58.072 --> 00:03:01.552 Oh, lover and beloved, eat and drink. 00:03:02.182 --> 00:03:02.812 Yes. 00:03:03.082 --> 00:03:05.032 Drink deeply of your love. 00:03:06.562 --> 00:03:11.542 I slept but my heart was awake when I heard my lover knocking and calling. 00:03:12.382 --> 00:03:16.792 Open to me my treasure, my darling, my dove, my perfect one. 00:03:17.632 --> 00:03:21.652 My head is drenched with due my hair with the dampness of 00:03:21.652 --> 00:03:24.082 the night, but I responded. 00:03:24.802 --> 00:03:26.422 I have taken off my robe. 00:03:26.722 --> 00:03:28.012 Should I get dressed again? 00:03:28.702 --> 00:03:31.912 I have washed my feet, should I get them soiled? 00:03:33.082 --> 00:03:37.672 My lover tried to unlatch the door and my heart thrilled with me. 00:03:38.302 --> 00:03:42.892 I jumped up to open the door for my love and my hands dripped with perfume. 00:03:43.372 --> 00:03:47.602 My fingers dripped with lovely merr as I pulled back the bolt. 00:03:48.382 --> 00:03:50.812 I opened to my lover, but he was gone. 00:03:51.562 --> 00:03:52.492 My heart sank. 00:03:53.272 --> 00:03:56.392 I searched for him, but could not find him anywhere. 00:03:57.052 --> 00:04:00.232 I called to him, but there was no reply. 00:04:01.207 --> 00:04:04.357 The night Watchmen found me as they made their rounds. 00:04:04.837 --> 00:04:08.047 They beat and bruised me and stripped off my veil. 00:04:08.317 --> 00:04:12.187 Those watchmen on the walls make this promise. 00:04:12.397 --> 00:04:13.867 Oh, women of Jerusalem. 00:04:14.407 --> 00:04:19.207 If you find my lover, tell him I am weak with love. 00:04:21.217 --> 00:04:23.487 Why is your lover better than all others? 00:04:23.827 --> 00:04:25.237 Oh, woman of rare beauty. 00:04:25.957 --> 00:04:30.067 What makes your lover so special that we must promise this? 00:04:31.552 --> 00:04:35.872 My lover is dark and dazzling better than 10,000 others. 00:04:36.502 --> 00:04:38.572 His head is finest gold. 00:04:38.842 --> 00:04:41.242 His wavy hair is black as a raven. 00:04:41.992 --> 00:04:45.592 His eyes sparkle like doves beside springs of water. 00:04:46.432 --> 00:04:49.522 They are set like Jules washed in milk. 00:04:50.092 --> 00:04:54.052 His cheeks are like gardens of spices giving off fragrance. 00:04:54.652 --> 00:04:57.442 His lips are like lilies, perfumed with myrrh. 00:04:58.162 --> 00:05:02.392 His arms are like rounded bars of gold set with Barrell. 00:05:02.992 --> 00:05:07.642 His body is like bright ivory glowing with lapis lly. 00:05:08.482 --> 00:05:13.252 His legs are like marble pillars set in sockets of finest gold. 00:05:13.852 --> 00:05:17.932 His posts stately like the noble cedars of Lebanon. 00:05:18.832 --> 00:05:20.962 His mouth is sweetness itself. 00:05:21.622 --> 00:05:23.842 He is desirable in every way. 00:05:24.802 --> 00:05:26.952 Such o women of Jerusalem. 00:05:27.667 --> 00:05:30.007 Is my lover, my friend. 00:05:32.077 --> 00:05:33.457 Where has your lover gone? 00:05:33.757 --> 00:05:35.137 Oh, woman of rare beauty. 00:05:35.797 --> 00:05:37.537 Which way did he turn? 00:05:37.567 --> 00:05:39.397 So we can help you find him. 00:05:40.897 --> 00:05:45.457 My lover has gone down to his garden, to his spice beds to browse and 00:05:45.457 --> 00:05:47.557 the gardens, and gather the lilies. 00:05:48.367 --> 00:05:51.487 I am my lovers and my lover is mine. 00:05:52.147 --> 00:05:54.337 He browses among the lilies. 00:05:55.882 --> 00:05:57.112 You are beautiful. 00:05:57.112 --> 00:05:57.802 My darling. 00:05:58.522 --> 00:06:00.592 Like the lovely city of Teza. 00:06:01.222 --> 00:06:05.572 Yes, as beautiful as Jerusalem, as majestic as an army. 00:06:05.572 --> 00:06:11.032 With billowing banners, turn your eyes away for they overpower me. 00:06:11.312 --> 00:06:17.932 Your hair falls in waves like a flock of goats winding down the slopes of Gilead. 00:06:18.772 --> 00:06:22.462 Your teeth are as white as sheep that are freshly washed. 00:06:22.987 --> 00:06:24.667 Your smile is flawless. 00:06:25.087 --> 00:06:27.577 Each tooth matched with its twin. 00:06:28.207 --> 00:06:32.047 Your cheeks are like rosy pomegranates behind your veil. 00:06:32.887 --> 00:06:37.267 Even among 60 queens and 80 concubines and countless young 00:06:37.272 --> 00:06:40.477 women, I would still choose my dove. 00:06:40.807 --> 00:06:41.797 My perfect one. 00:06:42.617 --> 00:06:47.037 The favorite of her mother, dearly loved by the one who bore her. 00:06:48.077 --> 00:06:50.287 The young women see her and praise her. 00:06:51.022 --> 00:06:54.802 Even Queens and royal concubines sing her praises. 00:06:55.372 --> 00:07:01.462 Who is this arising like the dawn, as fair as the moon, as bright as 00:07:01.462 --> 00:07:08.902 the sun, as majestic as an army With billowing banners, I went down to the 00:07:08.907 --> 00:07:14.062 grove of walnut trees and out to the valley to see the new spring growth, to 00:07:14.062 --> 00:07:18.922 see whether the grapevines had butted or the pomegranates were in bloom. 00:07:19.597 --> 00:07:24.397 Before I realized it, my strong desires had taken me to the 00:07:24.397 --> 00:07:28.387 chariot of a noble man Return. 00:07:28.837 --> 00:07:29.827 Return to us. 00:07:29.827 --> 00:07:31.297 Oh, made of Schlom. 00:07:31.807 --> 00:07:32.677 Come back. 00:07:32.707 --> 00:07:33.517 Come back. 00:07:33.967 --> 00:07:35.677 That we may see you again. 00:07:36.047 --> 00:07:41.977 Why do you stare at this young woman of Schlom as she moves so gracefully 00:07:41.982 --> 00:07:44.017 between two lines of dancers? 00:07:45.127 --> 00:07:47.467 How beautiful are your sandal feet? 00:07:47.527 --> 00:07:48.667 Oh, queenly maiden. 00:07:49.342 --> 00:07:51.712 Your rounded thighs are like jewels. 00:07:51.742 --> 00:07:53.572 The work of a skilled craftsman. 00:07:54.472 --> 00:07:59.272 Your navel is perfectly formed like a goblet filled with mixed wine 00:08:00.262 --> 00:08:04.672 between your thighs lies a mound of wheat bordered with lilies. 00:08:05.542 --> 00:08:09.922 Your breasts are like two fawns twin fawns of a gazelle. 00:08:10.762 --> 00:08:13.852 Your neck is as beautiful as an ivory tower. 00:08:14.572 --> 00:08:19.702 Your eyes are like the sparkling pools in Hesson by the gate of Bath Rabbit. 00:08:20.692 --> 00:08:25.582 Your nose is as fine as the Tower of Lebanon overlooking Damascus. 00:08:26.482 --> 00:08:30.772 Your head is as majestic as Mount Carmel and the sheen of 00:08:30.772 --> 00:08:32.752 your hair radiates royalty. 00:08:33.532 --> 00:08:36.322 The king is held captive by its tresses. 00:08:37.012 --> 00:08:39.022 Oh, how beautiful you are. 00:08:39.562 --> 00:08:41.332 How pleasing my love. 00:08:41.512 --> 00:08:42.802 How full of delights. 00:08:43.867 --> 00:08:49.507 You are slender like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters of fruit. 00:08:50.257 --> 00:08:55.177 I said, I will climb the palm tree and take hold of its fruit. 00:08:56.257 --> 00:09:00.607 May your breasts be like grape clusters and the fragrance 00:09:00.607 --> 00:09:02.347 of your breath like apples. 00:09:03.007 --> 00:09:07.207 May your kisses be as exciting as the best wine. 00:09:08.752 --> 00:09:15.532 Yes, wine that goes down smoothly for my lover, flowing gently over lips and teeth. 00:09:16.372 --> 00:09:19.912 I am my lovers and he claims me as his own. 00:09:20.812 --> 00:09:22.072 Come my love. 00:09:22.432 --> 00:09:26.542 Let us go out to the fields and spend the night among the wildflowers. 00:09:27.082 --> 00:09:31.312 Let us get up early and go to the vineyards to see if the grapevines have 00:09:31.312 --> 00:09:36.592 butted, if the blossoms have opened, and if the pomegranates have bloomed. 00:09:37.267 --> 00:09:37.897 There. 00:09:37.902 --> 00:09:41.107 I will give you my love there. 00:09:41.107 --> 00:09:46.477 The mandrakes give off their fragrance and the finest fruits are at our door. 00:09:46.747 --> 00:09:52.237 New delights, as well as old, which I have saved for you, my lover. 00:09:54.277 --> 00:09:58.627 Oh, I wish you were my brother who nursed at my mother's breasts. 00:09:59.077 --> 00:10:04.207 Then I could kiss you no matter who was watching, and no one would criticize me. 00:10:05.227 --> 00:10:09.427 I would bring you to my childhood home, and there you would teach me. 00:10:10.147 --> 00:10:14.947 I would give you spiced wine to drink my sweet pomegranate wine. 00:10:15.937 --> 00:10:20.257 Your left arm would be under my head and your right arm would embrace me. 00:10:21.547 --> 00:10:28.597 Promise me, oh, women of Jerusalem not to awaken love until the time is right. 00:10:30.757 --> 00:10:35.077 Who is this sweeping in from the desert, leaning on her lover? 00:10:36.607 --> 00:10:40.327 I aroused you under the apple tree where your mother gave you birth. 00:10:40.747 --> 00:10:42.847 Where in great pain she delivered you. 00:10:43.987 --> 00:10:48.217 Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm. 00:10:49.057 --> 00:10:51.337 For love is as strong as death. 00:10:51.817 --> 00:10:54.667 Its jealousy as enduring as the grave. 00:10:55.402 --> 00:10:59.362 Love flashes, like fire, the brightest kind of flame. 00:11:00.142 --> 00:11:04.102 Many waters cannot quench love, nor can rivers drown it. 00:11:05.002 --> 00:11:09.802 If a man tried to buy love with all his wealth, his offer 00:11:09.807 --> 00:11:11.542 would be utterly scorned. 00:11:13.102 --> 00:11:16.252 We have a little sister too young to have breasts. 00:11:16.972 --> 00:11:21.682 What will we do for our sister if someone asks to marry her? 00:11:22.657 --> 00:11:27.817 If she is a virgin, like a wall, we will protect her with a silver tower. 00:11:28.567 --> 00:11:33.697 But if she is promiscuous like a swinging door, we will block 00:11:33.702 --> 00:11:35.647 her door with a cedar bar. 00:11:37.207 --> 00:11:38.947 I was a virgin like a wall. 00:11:39.637 --> 00:11:44.167 Now my breasts are like towers when my lover looks at me. 00:11:44.167 --> 00:11:46.477 He is delighted with what he sees. 00:11:47.272 --> 00:11:52.882 Solomon has a vineyard at Bale Haman, which he leases out to tenant farmers. 00:11:53.602 --> 00:11:58.282 Each of them pays a thousand pieces of silver for harvesting its fruit, 00:11:59.242 --> 00:12:04.822 but my vineyard is mine to give and Solomon need not pay a thousand pieces 00:12:04.827 --> 00:12:10.942 of silver, but I will give 200 pieces to those who care for its vines. 00:12:12.487 --> 00:12:15.697 Oh my darling lingering in the gardens. 00:12:15.697 --> 00:12:19.117 Your companions are fortunate to hear your voice. 00:12:19.807 --> 00:12:21.637 Let me hear it too. 00:12:23.107 --> 00:12:24.427 Come away my love. 00:12:25.057 --> 00:12:30.637 Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices. 00:12:34.447 --> 00:12:37.267 This concludes today's immerse reading experience. 00:12:37.417 --> 00:12:38.617 Thank you for joining us.